Experiment: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Revenue Cutter (18th Century)
Site Name Experiment: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Revenue Cutter (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Experiment
Canmore ID 312428
Site Number NJ90NE 8373
NGR NJ 961 057
NGR Description NJ c. 961 057
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeen City Of
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
Loss (1 February 1782 - 28 February 1782)
(Classified as Revenue Cutter: date of loss cited as February 1782). Experiment: [this vessel was] wrecked whilst trying to enter Aberdeen Harbour. Capt. Cook.
Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N57 8.50 W2 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (18 August 2011)
(Location entered as NJ c. 961 057 [N57 8.5 W2 4]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05. The present entrance may be considered to lie at NJ c. 961 057, but this location reflects development towards the East through the construction of successive piers and breakwaters.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10444
Name : EXPERIMENT
Latitude : 570830
Longitude : 20400
Registration : BRITISH
Type : REVENUE CUTTER
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1782
Comment : Wrecked whilst trying to enter Aberdeen Harbour. Capt. Cook
